Jarringly

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a jarring manner.

    "But Mr. Kleinzahler, 55, noted both for poems that jarringly marry the high and the low and for keeping his distance from the New York illuminati, has found himself late in his career in a rather awkward spot: the cusp of respectability in the cliquish world of poetry."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a manner that jars and irritates wordnet

Example

More examples

"But Mr. Kleinzahler, 55, noted both for poems that jarringly marry the high and the low and for keeping his distance from the New York illuminati, has found himself late in his career in a rather awkward spot: the cusp of respectability in the cliquish world of poetry."

Etymology

From jarring + -ly.

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